The US foreign aid funding freeze is threatening the stability of community-based organizations and their vital work for children and young people worldwide.
Supporting Early Education and Development in Honduras
Global Fund for Children supports five community-based organizations and groups providing early childhood learning and development programs in Honduras.
The Supporting Early Education and Development (SEED) initiative brings together an initial cohort of five community-based organizations that utilize best practices in early childhood development, including child-centered approaches, play-based learning, multigenerational programming, and program designs that integrate health and nutrition.
The goal of this pilot initiative is to improve development and learning outcomes for low-income Honduran children ages 8 and under. The SEED initiative supports community-based organizations in strengthening their programs for infants and young children and in creating an environment that nurtures and engages children, families, and communities.
Project Partners
Casa ASTI
Comayagüela | Honduras
Casa ASTI builds relationships with children and families who live and work on the streets of Tegucigalpa’s urban market district, providing them with the support they need to return to and stay in school; keep their youngest children safe; and break the cycle of extreme poverty.
Centro de Niños con Necesidades Educativas Especiales
Peña Blanca | Honduras
Centro de Niños con Necesidades Educativas Especiales (CNNEE) is a solidarity initiative that promotes inclusive education with and for all by supporting families with preschool education and developmental therapy for young children, children with disabilities, and children with learning disorders.
Educación Diaria
Ojojona | Honduras
Educación Diaria provides quality, innovative, and creativity-based preschool education to children from low-income families on the outskirts of the town of Ojojona, Honduras.
Fundación Centro Cultural Infantil
San Pedro Sula | Honduras
Fundación Centro Cultural Infantil promotes an integral bilingual education with a focus on artistic expression for the development of children and youth in Honduras.
Un Mundo
La Ceiba | Honduras
Un Mundo is a community development organization that promotes the dignity, community, and self-sufficiency of people living in the protected watershed of the Cangrejal river through access to sustainable education, health, and livelihoods services.
United Way Honduras
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
United Way Honduras collaborates with other Honduran nonprofits and local government agencies to advance quality early childhood learning and youth development programming through social responsibility commitments from the Honduran private sector.
The most valuable thing [about SEED] is that we are not alone. We are now part of a network that works with children and looks out for their needs, and our needs as an organization are supported by other partners.
Esperanza, CNNEE, Honduras
It is encouraging to know that we have taken the first steps to create environments worthy of the children’s trust. The most painful aspect of this exercise has been to identify how many of the children face situations of family violence in which they are forced to work in order to contribute financially to their homes, … or are subjected to physical punishment, or psychological abuse, and which no one talks about.
GFC believes that the power of these organizations to make change lies not only in their individual strengths but also in the creativity and collaboration that they can spark together.
Elena Figueroa, Program Officer, Global Fund for Children
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